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Steven Ball

Date 
b. 1960
London
England

Steven Ball studied at Maidstone College of Art and has worked in film, video, sound and installation since the early 1980s. In the late 1980s he moved to Melbourne, Australia. There he continued his practice making a number of film, video and sound and installation works, as well as being engaged in various curatorial, administrative, teaching and writing activities.

Since returning to the UK in 2000 he has worked predominantly with digital video, producing a series of works, which among other things, are particularly concerned with digital material processes and spatial representation. More recently he has been developing these concerns through collaborative live video performance. He is currently Research Fellow at the British Artists' Film and Video Study Collection, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London.

Birth place
London, England
Period of activity 
from 1986
Other works 

Selected Works 
Personal Electronics (video and spoken word performance, 2008,
UK/Australia, and video, 2010, 30:00, UK)
Over Magnetic Island
(2009, 2:39, video, UK)
Over the Borough Island
(2009, 1:52, video, UK)
After Lethaby
(2009, with Martin Blazicek video performance and installation, UK)
The Ground, the Sky and the Island
(2008, 7:47, video, UK)
Aroundabout
(2008, ongoing hyperlocal ambulatorary weblog, http://aroundaring.blogspot.com)
Neither There Nor Here
(2007, 20:00, Storm Bugs video performance with Philip Sanderson, UK)
No-way Street
(2007, 1:00, video, UK)
Eutopia
(40:00, 2006, with Martin Blazicek, streaming video performance, Czech Republic & UK) 
Metalogue
(2003, 26:37, video, UK) Beamer (2002, 6:39, video, UK)
the next six minutes
(2002, 6:12, video, UK)
Phase Space Pacer
(2002, 2:30, video, UK)
Sevenths Synthesis
(2001, 7 mins, video, UK)

Australia
Aboriginal Myths of South London, – from Aboriginal Myths of South London, via Vimeo 
The War on Television, – from The War on Television, via Vimeo 
The Ground, the Sky, and the Island, – from The Ground, the Sky and the Island, via Vimeo 
The Defenestrascope, – from The Defenestrascope, via Vimeo 
– from Pools Between Land, via d/Archive 
– from Periscope 180°, via d/Archive